{"id":244,"date":"2010-02-14T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:40:46","slug":"55-of-365-is-a-hummingbird-flying-at-night-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/02\/14\/55-of-365-is-a-hummingbird-flying-at-night-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"55 of 365 is a hummingbird flying at night #inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20100214.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"245\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/02\/14\/55-of-365-is-a-hummingbird-flying-at-night-inkscape\/attachment\/20100214\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100214.png?fit=494%2C494&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"494,494\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Night flight hummingbird &amp;#8211; LeMasney Consulting\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Night flight hummingbird &amp;#8211; LeMasney Consulting&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Night flight hummingbird &amp;#8211; LeMasney Consulting&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100214.png?fit=494%2C494&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20100214.png?resize=494%2C494&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Night flight hummingbird - LeMasney Consulting\" width=\"494\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Night flight hummingbird &#8211; LeMasney Consulting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Happy <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Valentine&#039;s Day\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valentine%27s_Day\" rel=\"wikipedia\">valentine&#8217;s day<\/a> to those of you who celebrate. Today&#8217;s sketch is a hummingbird caught out at night. Something about it appealed to me, something touching or romantic. I&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I got an image of a hummingbird in silhouette, a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">CC licensed<\/span> image from Rick Buch on Flickr at\u00a0 <a title=\"Silhouetted Hummingbird\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickbuch\/1332747859\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickbuch\/1332747859\/<\/a> . I thought it was CC licensed because I used the Behold Search Engine and forgot that unless you specifically ask for images that are free to use and modify that by default you might as well be searching Flickr itself, which is not useful if you&#8217;re looking for CC images. I should have used one of the other 12 engines for finding great free images that use the CC license engine. Apologies and Kudos to Mr. Buch for a great shot.<\/p>\n<p>I bitmap traced it in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inkscape\" href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\">Inkscape<\/a>, then, I added a circle with the ellipse tool and put some blur on it to give a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bokeh\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bokeh\" rel=\"wikipedia\">bokeh<\/a> effect. I applied the colors I wanted, including a slight gradient on the hummingbird from a black center to a very dark blue at the edge. The result is an easily reproduced night effect for almost any simple silhouette photo.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/01\/27\/37-of-365-is-full-of-dark-green-bokeh-inkscape\/\">37 of 365 is full of dark green bokeh #inkscape<\/a> (365sketches.wordpress.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/archives\/021659.html\">Google Sends Valentine&#8217;s Day Card to AdSense Publishers<\/a> (seroundtable.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/design\">Seven Valentine&#8217;s Day Gifts to Buy Yourself from Etsy<\/a> (pastemagazine.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy valentine&#8217;s day to those of you who celebrate. Today&#8217;s sketch is a hummingbird caught out at night. Something about it appealed to me, something touching or romantic. I&#8217;m not sure. Anyway, I got an image of a hummingbird in silhouette, a CC licensed image from Rick Buch on Flickr at\u00a0 http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickbuch\/1332747859\/ . I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3654],"tags":[346,411],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolio","tag-google","tag-inkscape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-3W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5884,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/02\/08\/39-of-365-is-a-life-swallowed-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":0},"title":"39 of 365 is a life, swallowed #Inkscape","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-02-08","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 I recently decided to jump-start submissions for requests on 365 by asking for random captions and titles for pieces. 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